STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1477

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    H.B. No. 464

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 464, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Department of Health for the purchase of an ambulance vehicle and the operational costs for one ambulance unit to serve the area of Kakaako in the City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from one individual.  Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that the population of the Kakaako area in the City and County of Honolulu has increased dramatically.  Similarly, there has been a steady and noticeable increase in calls for emergency medical services in Kakaako.  Your Committee further finds that in addition to the purchase of an ambulance vehicle, this appropriation will support operational costs for one ambulance unit, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical service personnel.

 

Your Committee notes that if sufficient moneys are available in the emergency medical services special fund to fund the purpose of this measure, those moneys should be utilized prior to the expenditure of moneys appropriated by this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2060, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 464, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 464, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair